Cultivation led to this set sale
This relationship began back last year. We had a kitchen-extraction cleaning at Bhakti Lounge, Wellington, NZ, so I rang up the company who previously had been collecting our oil every month. A gentleman answered the phone, and once we got talking he asked me whether Bhakti Lounge is connected to the Newlands temple. In response, I said that we’re not directly linked to them, but our centre is the contemporary version of a Hare...
Srila Prabhupada in Boston 1969
“We must not be disappointed that no one is hearing Krsna consciousness. We will say it to the moon and stars and all directions. We will cry in the wilderness, because Krsna is everywhere. We want to get a certificate from Krsna that, “This man has done something for Me.’ Not popularity. If a pack of asses says you are good, what is that? We have to please Krsna’s senses with purified...
A blissful day, in a determined mood, in and around Liverpool
The rain was torrential. My path to the bus stop was blocked by floods underneath rail bridges, twice. I watched two firemen drag an old man, soaked up to his neck, out of his car, which remained almost completely submerged in the five-foot-deep trench of water he had tried to drive through. “A good start to the day,” I chuckled to myself. I was trying Great Crosby, a small town outside Liverpool (home city of The Beatles and Bhakta...
All good things come in good time
On Gaura Purnima, I went out to distribute the message of Lord Chaitanya. Sankirtan was going well at the Supermercardo in Dallas until Sergeant Rock, the security guard, shooed me away. I still had some more time for sankirtan, so I tried a little of the old door-dee-door. After entering an apartment complex, I saw an open door on the second floor. I was greeted at the door by Linda who was immediately attracted to the Easy Journey...
Indians in the West should distribute the Gita
I was distributing at La Jolla Cove in San Diego when a middle-aged Indian couple stopped at my table. They said that they already had the Gita. So I offered them a TLC, which they gratefully accepted. They gave a nice donation. Then I gave the man a Gita and said, “You should be doing what I’m doing, because this is your culture. Give this to someone who will appreciate it.” I quoted the verse ‘bharata bhumite...